New Covid strain that is 'more infectious' identified in UK

New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists and the best that music has to offer. ET has you covered for everything in between.Ed Sheeran leads this week's releases with, pronounced «Subtract,» Sheeran's fifth studio album.

We now continue to learn even more about Tucker Carlson‘s disturbing behind-the-scenes behavior at Fox News prior to his abrupt firing late last month.

William Earl Tucker Carlson, the recently-axed Fox News host, sent a text to a producer which was the beginning of the end of his relationship with the network, according to a New York Times report. The cruel and racist text was redacted from court filings submitted as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, which resulted in the conservative network settling for $787.5 million dollars. The text, which was sent on Jan. 7, 2021, hours after Trump supporters attacked the United States Capitol, described a scene Carlson found distressing, in which he said “Trump guys” beat up an “Antifa kid.” But the part that upset him was that “it was three against one,” and “it’s not how white men fight.”

“I just can’t shift this cold; I’ve been coughing for weeks; I feel exhausted; My brain fog is unreal.” Does all that sound familiar? Even if you dodged the worst of the lurgies doing the rounds this winter, cancelled diary dates and work sick notes are a reminder of just how many of us are still feeling the effects of what some people are calling long flu. And it’s not just runny noses and hacking coughs.

So many celebs were in attendance at The Prince’s Trust Global Gala just days ahead of the 2023 Met Gala.

Michael Appler It’s quiet on the roof of the St. James Theater. Up here, less than 10 stories above 44th Street, the clamor of an opening night on Broadway drifts away. Below, titans of the American theater — actors like Chita Rivera and Joel Grey — are gathering to attend the opening night of a new musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, a duo who gave Broadway shows like “Cabaret” and “Chicago.” But on the roof — on top of “New York, New York” — the air is still.  Up here, in the few moments of serenity before red carpet interviews, an opening night performance and a long evening of parties, the musical’s two stars, Colton Ryan and Anna Uzele — newcomers to all the fuss below — stop to catch their breath. 

When Anna Richardson first fronted the dating show that saw singletons pick partners in their birthday suits before going on a date with them, naturally, the UK was very invested. Since 2016, plenty of singletons have stripped off in the hopes of finding love, and while for some, things didn’t work out, for others, sparks flew.

The new Omicron sub-variant has begun to spread across the world.

Five people in the UK have died after catching the new Arcturus strain of Covid-19, according to UK health officials.

Thanks to their victories at the Oscars in March, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan are now very hot Hollywood commodities. And it takes almost no time for the “Everything Everywhere All At Once” stars to team up again.

Sir Isaac Newton's prediction on when the world would come to an end from way back in the year 1704 is causing people to fear the legendary scientist may have been right.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has unveiled the cast for its coming-of-age sports drama Rez Ball, set in the world of Native American basketball, which Sydney Freeland (Marvel Studios’ Echo) boarded as director in 2021. Among those set to star are Jessica Matten (Dark Winds), Julia Jones (The Mandalorian), Amber Midthunder (Prey), Kiowa Gordon (Dark Winds), Dallas Goldtooth (Reservation Dogs), Cody Lightning (Echo), Ernest Tsosie (Better Call Saul) and Kauchani Bratt.

MUNA have shared a new single called ‘One That Got Away’ – you can listen to it below.The Los Angeles trio – comprising Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin and Naomi McPherson – debuted the track during their set at Coachella 2023 last weekend after teasing that they’d be releasing a tune “very soon”.Today (April 17), the studio version of ‘One That Got Away’ premiered on BBC Radio One as the station’s ‘Hottest Record’.“This song is just rubbing your hot ass in the face of someone who messed up their chance of being with you,” Gavin explained in a statement. “It’s a bit vengeful and mean, but also fun.

Michele Amabile Angermiller The inaugural American Music Honors awards show — a fundraiser for the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University — launched Saturday night without two very important presenters in attendance: Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa. Bob Santelli, the Archives’ executive director, broke the news that the Springsteens were both diagnosed with COVID-19 just hours after Springsteen took a final bow Friday night at the Prudential Center, wrapping the first part of his 2023 tour with the E Street Band. “It broke our hearts around 6 a.m. this morning when I got a call that two of the most important people who were supposed to be here, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, unfortunately came down with COVID.”

has worn the figure-hugging French label, which teamed up with model and British Vogue cover star last spring on a colorful . Last August, also out and about in the Big Apple, Ratajkowski danced with a friend for a TikTok video in a gauzy Miaou minidress.Ratajkowski’s best method for stealing attention is the naked dress—a see-through style she’s sported countless times on the red carpet (note the she wore to the recent 2023 Oscars afterparty).

A new Covid-19 variant that has forced India to reinstate mask rules has been found in the UK.

New Order have announced details of a UK and European tour, with Confidence Man due to support – see full dates below.The new dates follow a run of shows in North America in March which included a performance and in conversation key-note speech with the band at the SXSW Festival.The band also performed earlier in the same week as part of Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater.New Order will begin their upcoming tour on September 21 at Copenhagen Royal Arena, before heading to Amsterdam, Paris, London, Dublin and Glasgow. They finish up in Leeds at the First Direct Arena on October 7.Tickets for the tour will be on sale this Friday, April 14 at 9.30am.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Chris Pratt’s Mario voice has been a topic of discussion ever since the first trailer for “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” debuted last October. Some fans claimed it wasn’t Italian enough, while others felt it was too aggressively Brooklyn. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Pratt revealed that one of his first attempts at the Mario voice got rejected by the film’s directors, Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, because it far too resembled Tony Soprano, the anti-hero mob boss played by James Gandolfini in HBO’s “The Sopranos.” “For a minute, I walked in and they were like, ‘That’s a little New Jersey. You’re doing a Tony Soprano thing,’” Pratt said. “[The voice] was a really exciting and daunting challenge. Talking to these guys, they say, ‘You wanna do the Mario movie?’ I think both [Charlie Day and I] said yes. Didn’t even ask, ‘What’s the deal? What’s the story?’ ‘Yes, I’m in.’ And then we had to really dig in and figure out…are they Italian? Are they American?”

Lewis Capaldi delighted his American fans during one of his biggest tours yet as he takes to the stage in New York, belting out his iconic ballads.

The actor that never ages. Paul Rudd has taken on a lot of titles over the course of his decades-long career, from rom-com heartthrob to superhero to one of Hollywood’s funniest stars.